How often do you label people?

How often do you label people subconsciously? You may not even realize it, but I'm just curious to
see how many people realize how often they judge others for no reason other than how your mind has
been framed.

I'm trying to do better, but I do it all the time.

- Someone dresses a certain way, I find myself questioning it.
- Someone acts a certain way in public
- Someone is buying something with change
- Someone is trying to get on the bus for free
- Someone is taking forever in a line-up at a cash register
- Someone is not driving well
- Someone is late / doesn't show up to work
- Someone is yelling at someone in the street
- Someone is treating their kid a certain way

The list goes on for me.
These are all different type of situations where I instantly judge someone.
This is what I thought of in about 60 seconds.

For an example of the judgement, let's take the buying something for alot of change. Normally, that
shouldn't even be something I think about. Due to how my mind has been framed growing up in
the area I live, I always think they either begged for it, or they spent there 'real money' on drugs. I
never come to the thought that people just go through tough times and perhaps it's some of their
only money and they didn't spend the rest on drugs.

Another example is someone not driving well. I am an excellent driver, so sometimes when someone
is not driving good I assume them of being an absolute dumb ass, having no hand-eye coordination,
perhaps being drunk or brand new to the country and having no clue how to drive. I never take into
consideration they may barely ever drive, or be scared and not like driving, or perhaps they have
driving anxiety or are just a young in-experienced driver.

So quick to judge.

 

I label people a lot more than I should but sometimes I feel like I could guess someone’s story just off looking at them

 

Recently moved and neighbors invited us for cook over and just by looking at them my SO guessed 3 of the 4 kid names based off how they looked

 

I do label people all the time. For some reason it bugs me when people can’t manage their money well and homeless people begging for money when they could just go get a job.

I’m actually one of those guys that sits at the self checkout and loads the machine with change. But I run a business irl and a few of my customers pay in cash. When I dispose this income it ends me up with a bit of change and I’m that asshole firing coins into the machine. Believe me I am self conscious when I do this and feel like I’m being judged ha

 

All the time.

Subconsciously or consciously, honestly I cant even help it. whenever i see like a fat person i think how difficult their lives must be, and that theyre just lazy / low will power

 

Constantly, but for a while now I've made a habit out of "reasoning" afterward. For example, just now I was driving and a van sped across my path way too close to me. I honked and thought, "I hope that causes problems in your marriage! You married an asshole, lady (or guy; I'm pretty sure I saw a lady in the passenger's seat, although she could be married to a lady. Either way, they married an asshole)!"


Yep...

 

I think alot of people do it without meaning to. it's a habbit

 

All the time. I try not to but it comes naturally.